One interesting experiment Projekt:Kirche tried in a service was a "sermon slam." The idea was for three leaders to preach from the same passage, each giving a 7-8 minute sermon, one after the other in the same service. They delivered unique interpretations of Scripture and shared the message of the Gospel in different ways through the passage. According to some people from the congregation, it was a success. Would you try this in your service?
Friedrichshain in former East Berlin comprises creative, political, and individualistic people, concerned with social issues like refugees and food waste. (One practice, called "containering," is the act of collecting the food that supermarkets throw away.) Though gentrification is slowly creeping in, there are still pockets of squatter houses that have existed since the wall came down in 1989 - for instance, in north Friedrichshain on Rigaer Strasse. The squatters occupy the old buildings of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but are gradually being evicted.
If you visit Friedrichshain, you will also see graffiti on nearly every block. Sabrina Tesch, the pastor of mercy and justice ministries, told us, "People do graffiti to leave their mark and to make a name for themselves." The amount of graffiti is far too overwhelming for the police to handle, so they don't. On top of that, the police are treated with suspicion. There is a strong contingent of free-minded residents who don't want to be told what to do.
Projekt:Kirche is engaging with the people of this neighborhood in several different ways. They want to be a presence in the neighborhood by participating in food sharing, learning how to do justice (one small group recently did a study of Generous Justice), and by taking an interest in social and political issues. Through these efforts they are finding common cause and building friendships with people in the community.


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The state of play: FDI in Hungary
Hungary experienced a dip in FDI inflows in 2019 after enjoying an impressive 2018. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic saw the country on the retreat, introducing FDI screening mechanisms.
Sofia Karadima
Capital city Budapest is the main FDI hub in Hungary, although the country has just introduced screening measures in response to Covid-19. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images)
With Covid-19 presenting myriad challenges for countries around the world, Hungary has responded by introducing a new foreign direct investment (FDI) screening mechanism in a move that some critics are claiming is protectionist.
The Governmental Decree no. 227/2020, which was introduced in May 2020, applies to both investors from the EU and other countries. The screening measures will be in place until the end of December 2020.
The new decree involves notification to and acknowledgement by the minister of innovation and technology as a requirement for executing foreign investment in companies operating in sectors such as defence and healthcare, among others.
A dip in FDI
In 2019, FDI inflows into Hungary stood at $5.2bn, down from $8.3bn in 2018, but up from the $3.5bn recorded in 2017, according to data from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
This data also reveals that in contrast to the FDI inflows, Hungary's FDI stock has been growing consistently over the same period, with the 2019 figure standing at $97.8bn, up from $95.7bn in 2018 and $93.6bn in 2017.
The value of announced greenfield projects into Hungary has also been steadily growing since 2017. Data from UNCTAD shows that the value of greenfield projects stood at $7.5bn in 2019, increasing from $4.5bn in 2018 and $3bn in 2017.
However, the picture for project numbers is mixed. In 2019, Hungary attracted 102 projects, down from 114 in 2018 but up from 83 in 2017.
Manufacturing, financial and insurance services, wholesale and retail trade, as well as professional, scientific and technical activities, are among the sectors that attracted the largest FDI flows into Hungary in 2018, according to data from the OECD.
Sofia Karadima is a senior editor and researcher at Investment Monitor, focusing on financial and business services, and ESG investing. She previously covered institutional investment across private markets for financial news and research provider Acuris. She has reported on private equity, venture capital, private debt and infrastructure, among other topics. Sofia is currently based in London, after living in Chile, Denmark, Spain and Greece.
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Political parties have shifted many times in 220 years of national politics. Even when parties have kept the same names for long periods, their issues, principles, demographics, and regional support all change over time.
This chart shows the evolution of political party systems in the U.S. from 1820 to 1860. Each "party system" is a roughly defined time period in which two major political parties, each with fairly consistent supporters and beliefs, dominated the political scene. The colored lines represent organized parties that had a significant impact on national politics, electing members of Congress or receiving more than 1% of the vote for President. Where the lines merge and split, parties split or party affiliations changed dramatically in a short period of time. Presidential candidates are also listed for each party.


Parisian bassist/sound technologist Floy Krouchi and New York saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman pair up to explore the question of how technology can offer magical meaning in our lives.
By extending the ancient symbol of the totem into hi-tech zones, they create a sonic experience where computer science, contemporary aesthetics and the concept of ritual all merge.
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Organizations have traditionally invested most of their security in technology, with little effort in protecting their employees. As a result, many attackers today target the weakest link, the human. Awareness, not just technology, has become key to reducing risk and remaining compliant. This high-level talk designed for management explains why humans are so vulnerable, how they are being actively exploited, and what organizations can do about it.
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Slim 'n Benny 'n Betty — The Old Days at the World Series
"Amarillo Slim" Preston and I escaped the crowd in the poker room during the '99 World Series of Poker for an intimate conversation in the midst of a few hundred of our closest friends in the sportsbook at the Horseshoe where the fast-talkin' Texas toothpick, the most famous poker player in the world, rolled out a string of stories like a kitten playfully unraveling a ball of twine. First there were the Benny Binion tales, then the Betty Carey episode followed by the infamous "I'll slit my throat if a woman ever –" misquote. Enough verbiage to choke a horse, as Slim himself might say.
"The ol' man willed me his horse when he died," the venerable story teller reminisced in the soft tones of the South and muted hues of yesteryear. "I have his personal horse at my ranch right now — why, I knew Benny Binion better than anybody alive. I met him when I was a kid in Texas, back when I thought that I was just being mischievous, but the government thought that I was bein' a little more than that. I was a little rowdy and Benny liked that. And he could trust me. I wasn't this big around, but I wouldn't give a grizzly bear the road."
Dana Smith: Do you miss him?
"Amarillo Slim" Preston: Yeah, I do. I introduced Benny's daughter Brenda to her husband, you know. She wanted to go to a pool tournament at the Stardust years ago and Benny wouldn't let her go alone, so she comes to me and says, "Slim, will you take me to the pool tournament?" And I said certainly because it was all right if I took her, you understand. Nick was a young, good looking Greek boy and I introduced them there.
Dana: Did you and Benny play poker or do business together?
Slim: I never played poker with him in my life, but he played my ป๊อกเด้ง ไฮโล hand for me one day at the Horseshoe. "Lemme sit down her," he says. I said OK and just walked off. When I came back, a crowd had gathered around and I thought, "What in the hell, I guess the ol' man's pissed off all my chips." Right about then somebody bet and he just moved in on 'em. After the guy threw his hand away, Benny says to me, "Look at my hand, see what I got."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well, I didn't have my glasses on and I couldn't see my hand, but I didn't want nobody to know it." That ol' sonnagun bet all my money and didn't even know what he had!
Dana: What then?
Slim: I was doin' a lot of TV after the World Series first started, so I'm in Mountain Home, Arkansas, buying some registered Hereford cattle from the Rockefeller Corporation. I was gonna "A-I" 'em, that is artificially inseminate them. Them poor ol' cows get milked twice a day and only get to mate once a year — just seems like they deserve a better fate than that. Anyway, I'd done the Johnny Carson show three or four times by then, and Tom Snyder and I had gotten to be friends — he had the Tomorrow Show right after Carson's Tonight Show. So Snyder's show coordinator runs me down back there in Arkansas saying, "Slim, we want you to come do the show on a certain date because Bob Hope's gonna be on then and he makes Snyder nervous and we know that you'll relax him."
"I'll come on the condition that I can bring my own guest" I said.
"Well, we don't do that," he answered.
"Suits me," I said and hung up the phone. So the next time they called, it was Snyder himself on the phone.
"Slim, who would you bring?" he asks.
"I'd bring Benny Binion," I said.
"Sure you will!" he answered. You see, the whole world couldn't get Benny to do a TV show because he didn't want no publicity. "But if I bring him," I said, "you'll have to give us the whole show."
OK, but bring one other guest, too," he answered.
So I brought Benny and Joe Bernstein, the gambler, on the show with me and we put on an hour's commercial for the Horseshoe. Me 'n Benny had made up a signal so that if they asked him something and he was in a jam to answer it, I could take him off the hook. So, somebody asks him, "Benny, why is it that those places out there on the Strip in Vegas have a $500 limit and you've got no limit?" I thought oh, how's Benny gonna handle that one?
"Well, they got great big hotels and little biddy bankrolls," he said. "I got a little biddy hotel and a great big bankroll." It went over good. About a minute later somebody asked, "But Mr. Binion, aren't you afraid that somebody will break the bank?"
"Well, not really," he said. "I've got a derned good head start on 'em." I don't even have a tape of that show, but the Binion family has one.
Dana: There's more to this story, though …
Slim: Yeah, we took a limo down to Rodeo Drive to have us some suits made. "Slim, tell the driver to turn around and let's go back over there to get Joe to make up a couple of Western tuxedos," Benny says. So I tell the driver to turn around and he answers, "OK, but I've gotta go down here and turn off and do so and so." The ol' man repeats again, "Tell him he needs to turn around now." He said he couldn't.
"Ralph, you really do need to turn around," I insist and finally he did. We were about to get pinched and the ol' man knew it. Benny was tough, but a lot of people don't realize that he was a good-hearted, generous man. He was either the gentlest bad guy or the baddest good guy you'd ever seen. And that's a pretty good epitaph for him.
Dana: There was a story that happened years ago about a remark that you made to a woman at the World Series of Poker …
Slim: This is the factual account: It used to be that we took very few breaks, we played till it was over, but that was before the media got a hold of it. In about the first two or three hours of the tournament, a lady named Vera who wasn't a very popular person got hold of this many checks. Then we took a break and went into the Sombrero Room where the Associated Press and a bunch of people were yakking with me. So here comes this big woman, Vera, whose family owned some big ol' cosmetics company, about 1,500 stores. She busts right in, but that was OK with me, it didn't matter. "Mr. Slim," she says (she called me Mr. Slim because she was trying to show me some respect in front of the media), "what do you think about a lady getting a hold of that many chips?"
"I think it's great," I answer.
"Well, it's a certainty that I'm gonna win this World Series," she blurts out.
"Vera, if you win the World Series of Poker you can take a dull knife and cut my throat!" That's exactly what I said — and I meant it.
"What will you lay to one that I don't win it?"she asks. Before I could speak up, Frank Gish was standing there and he says, "I'll lay you 40-to-1." I was gonna lay her 200-to-1, but she took Frank's offer for a little bit of money.
Well, I was quoted as saying, "If a woman ever wins the World Series, I'll cut my throat." I didn't say that, but I caught a lot of heat from the gals, the lesser lady players, although when I told the good ones how it was, they knew Vera and understood what I meant by my remark. To this day, I'm still quoted incorrectly.
Dana: You know the great lady poker player Betty Carey quite well …
Slim: Yes, she's back in Wyoming, has a little girl child, and is completely away from gaming. She showed up in Greenville, Mississippi, a few years ago when I was hosting the opening of a casino there and told me that she needed a job, maybe they'd want her to deal or be a host. "Come on over here, you've got one," I said.
"But you haven't even talked to them," she protested.
"I don't need to," I answered, "you've got a job." She didn't work there for too long before she went back home to Wyoming.
Dana: What about the big poker games you played with her?
Slim: Betty is the best woman poker player that I've ever seen. Jimmy Chagra bankrolled her with $100,000 to play me head-up out at the ilton the first time she played me, but I had a tell on Betty and I beat her. You see, I got her to talking to me the first time we played and I knew her hand — believe me, I knew her hand. That's why a lot of people won't talk to me when I'm playing — they betray themselves. I had heard Betty say that something she was drinking tasted real good, so I knew how she sounded when she was sincere. Then this pot came up — it was so big that a show dog couldn't jump over it — and I asked her, "How do you like your hand, Betty?" And she says, "Boy, this is a real good hand." But it didn't sound the same as before — I knew she was lyin'. So I called her and sure 'nough, she didn't have anything.
ow in her defense, a broker from New York staked Betty to play me $100,00 here at the Horseshoe and I beat her the first game. When we got through she said, "We might play again." So I gave her a $100 bill to call her backer so that I could find out where she was getting that money. Not all trappers wear fur caps, you know.
Then people woke up to what I was doin', how I got a tell on her, and they told her not to talk to me, that no matter what I said she wasn't to answer me. So, the fourth time we played she came to the table with things in her ears."I'm ready to play another freezeout," she says. "Betty, we're playing Texas rules this time," I answer. "When you lose one, you must bet two, that's the way the Texans do." You follow? So she leaves and comes back with $200,000 to play me. And she broke me in about eight minutes.
I had won the first two matches that we played at the Hilton, plus the first one that we played at Binion's, but on the last one I got loser because I made her bet two "the way the Texans do." You see, I knew who her backer was and I wanted to scratch him up a little, win something with whiskers on it you know.
Dana: Has the World Series changed a lot since the old days?
Slim: The Series or the property? The property has changed a lot, but the Series is so big and so successful that you could hold it at Pahrump out there in the hole where Teddy had his silver buried and people would show up. 'Course, Benny used to serve only premier food, too, but all I know is that I miss him, and not just here at the Horseshoe.
He was at my ranch one time while a buyer from a big stud farm was there looking at a mare that I had. The buyer offered me about three times what she was worth. "You oughta pick out something else," I said, "I don't want to sell that mare," so I sent some of my guys with him to look over some of my yearlings. "If you find something there that you want, fine, but this mare you can't have."
Then Benny gets to walking around and looking at that filly and he says, "You know, Slim, she reminds me of the best sonnabitch I ever owned." And I'm thinking oh, my gawd, he's putting the touch on me, so I say, "Yeah, but she's not much 'count."
"Yeah she is," he says. Later we're riding down the road in my car, he's staying at my home, and he says, "What do you want fer her?" (He always said fer.)
"I don't want nothing fer her. You know what I turned down."
Well, I'll stand to get robbed a little bit. What do you want fer her?"
"Nothing. She's not for sale!" So he squirreled up like an ol' toad, wouldn't hardly talk to me. About three weeks later I sent one of my rigs up to Montana to Benny's ranch with a paint llama, a gray mule that Rex Cabo had wanted (he's a big boss in Texas and was a friend of ours), and that mare that Benny wanted — her name was Miss Flaming Becky. I gave them all to him. That llama was a spotted paint, unusual, that I had brought in from Argentina.
Dana: What an extraordinary thing to do.
Slim: We don't do ordinary things, hon. Benny didn't call to thank me, didn't acknowledge that he'd gotten them, didn't do a damned thing. So I'm out here in Vegas and I'm up early one morning and Benny calls me — me and him, we'd get up early and go out to get a shave and then we'd eat strawberries, we were both sucker for fresh strawberries.
"What you gonna do this afternoon?" he asks.
"Nothin'," I say.
"Let's go to a sale. Wayne Newton's having a big one out at his ranch."
"Benny, I don't own any Arabians (and he didn't either) and I can rope and drag every sonnabitch Arabian I've ever seen faster than he can run." But we go to the sale anyway. Turns out that they had a longhorn cattle sale, too, and damned if the ol' man didn't get to biddin' and buyin' and biddin' and buyin' and he bought two or three truckloads of them registered longhorn cows and calves and some heifers.
About ten days later I'm back home and my foreman calls me saying, "Slim, what do you want to do with these longhorn pairs that's down here in this truck?"
"Whose truck is it?" I ask.
"Well, it's got a T. J. on it (Teddy Jane)."
"Oh, that's some of Benny's stock. Just put 'em in a lot and feed and water them, they probably want to rest them because they're going to Fort Worth or somewhere." So a while later he calls me back and says, "They're to stay here."
I don't even snap, you understand, I just pick up the phone and call Benny. "What the hell do you want me to do with these longhorns?"
"Oh," he says, "they're yours."
"OK," I say, never saying thank you or nothing. He had sent me twelve registered longhorn pairs, meaning a cow and a calf. The cows were sucking a big calf and they were heavy springers that probably were six months pregnant with another one. That was the reciprocation that Benny made for my mare. And not one word was ever said.
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Candy retailers are discovering that using the Internet to market their wide selection of candies and products in their stores is helping to increase their profits at a rate like never before. Candy retailers have evolved into diverse businesses that sell everything from your classic lollipops to artisanal creations. There are countless media outlets that can be used as a resource and this makes business only sweeter.
Marketing channels have become more diverse over the last few years and it's become the norm to include some type of digital advertising in your marketing plan. There is much to consider and multiple opportunities being created daily meaning you have to stay one step ahead of the emerging trends and have in depth knowledge of the marketplace. When doing so, it's important to evaluate your customers and what their candy needs are. Each customer is unique and it's your job to ensure that they know that you have what they need.
To do this, you need to consider all options starting with social media outlets, blogs, forums, online communities, CPC campaigns, and the multitude of websites who speak to the different audiences. Candy retailers have to be extremely cognizant of what message they put where and who they are speaking to. For example, if you want to reach brides or the mother of the bride who is looking for candy for the trending "candy buffet" you should consider marketing on bridal websites or in online bridal blogs. It's not uncommon for these types of media outlets to be looking for sponsors or want to partner with you to benefit both your businesses.
If you have a limited marketing budget, another great way to get your products and store exposure is social media. Why? Because it is free! Pinterest is great for any company who wants to market tangible products. It is a tool that showcases your product in the category or board of your choosing. Pinterest has become a leading social media platform, and features in Pinterest can transform your account into a highly visible storefront experience. You have the option of linking each picture to a specified page, which will increase traffic to your site, and hopefully turn your Pinterest profile to a separate one stop shop for your brand.
Candy retailers have to change with the times and stay abreast on what is happening in the industry. They have to understand that the candy business will continue to evolve and that they need develop new ways of keeping their customers informed, happy and coming back.
Kristin Robinson is the Director of Marketing for Royal Enterprises. A graduate from The Pennsylvania State University with a Corporate Communications Degree, she has over 10 years experience in the media, marketing and advertising industry where she has worked with higher education, pharmaceutical, retail, financial and many other types of clients. For more information about Royal Wholesale Candy, visit www.royalwholesalecandy.com.


Thank you for your service to our country. Your military service has earned you, and your beneficiaries, valuable benefits; and, is one of the qualifications for obtaining a VA loan. By meeting one or more of the following conditions, you may qualify.
A certificate of eligibility (COE) is required before securing a VA loan. Generally speaking, a COE can, be obtained at your local Veteran Affairs office or by filling out a certificate of eligibility request form and your lender will submit electronically to the VA.
VA offers fixed rate loans with terms ranging from 10 years to 30 years. VA also offers Adjustable Rate Mortgages, commonly referred to as ARMs. In addition, there are renovation loans where you can buy an existing property and renovate the home. It is important to note that the Veterans Administration does not make loans directly, but, in fact, guarantees loans made by lenders.
A VA Loan, in most cases, will not require a down payment. However, VA will allow you to make a down payment if you wish. The funding fee is lower if you make a larger down payment. The reductions come at 5% and 10% down payments. If you are putting down a larger down payment you may want to consider other loan options where a funding fee is not required. This is particularly true if you are making a 20% or larger down payment.
There are also other loans with little or no down payment required. In some areas, you may be eligible for grants that will contribute towards your down payment and/or closing costs.
Above we discussed that the VA itself does not make loans but guarantees them. When you take out a VA loan you pay a funding fee to the lender that they turn around a pay to the VA. This fee goes into a pool that the VA uses to pay off loans that default. The funding fee is paid by all Veterans that take out a VA loan based on a sliding scale. The funding fee is waived in its entirety for eligible disabled Veterans.
There is also a reduced funding fee for Veterans doing a VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (VA IRRRL ~ pronounced VA earl).
VA has no restrictions on the number of loans that you can have. They only limit the amount that they will guarantee. They also look at how much you can afford. This is based on your qualifying income, your debts, and on your residual income.
Your qualifying income is the income that the lender can use to count towards approving your loan. This is generally anything that is stable and will continue for at least three more years. If it is paid under the table, you haven't received it on a regular basis, or you can't prove that you receive it then the lender won't be able to count it. If it won't continue for the foreseeable future then the lender won't be able to use it either.
Residual income is the amount of money that is left over each month after all of your major expenses are paid. This includes housing, taxes, debts, and childcare. Another word for residual income is disposable income. VA want to make sure that you have money for things like gas, groceries and other family needs. VA requires that, based on area of the country where you live and family size, that you have a specific amount of residual or disposable income each month.
As A Veteran, What Else Should I Consider?
Moving when you are on active duty takes a bit more planning than when you are a civilian. A Permanent Change of Duty Station (PCSing) has particular nuances for your loan as well. Be sure to think about any changes in pay that will accompany your move such as BAH or COLA changes that will differ from one location to another that will impact your budget. Teresa Cowart (Twitter @TeresaCowart) has put together a list of things to help make Military Moves easier.
You may have heard that in a tight housing market the seller wants to see a larger down payment in order to accept your contract. In markets where VA loans are common most sellers are educated by their agents and many sellers are Veterans themselves. In other markets, a seller's first reaction could be negative. Here is a resource from Bill Gassett explaining that a lower down payment doesn't mean that a buyer isn't qualified that you can include with your offer.
There are many aspects to buying a home and you should educate yourself on them all. Lynn Pineda offers advice on how to handle common home buying pitfalls and Paul Sian shares a guide to important mortgage terms you need to know It also never hurts to make certain your credit is up to snuff before applying for your home loan.
Great info! Wish I could qualify for a VA loan but I can't. But always like understanding what things actually are, so thank you!
Great information for any VA. I have worked with several clients who had a VA loan. They really appreciated the loan and it help them get the house they wanted at low upfront cost. Thanks for sharing the details about the VA loan process.
Great information for anyone interested in applying for a VA loan.
My hubby is a vet & uses some of the services but never thought to get a VA housing loan. Would have been a good idea.
This is great information. I have several veterans in my life. I'll be sure to pass this on!
This is interesting information for those who serve our country in this way.
Well, I do not qualify but I have seen this put to wonderful use. It is truly great that we have this for people.
Great job educating veterans about home mortgage options…will pass along.
I think those who serve in the military deserve every perk they get after their years of service to the country. Go for it! Take advantage!
Christy, thanks for all your information. While I didn't think it would every apply to me, I suddenly found myself applying for a loan (not a VA one). So, you never know when someone's information is going to come in handy.
That's cool that VA loans don't typically require a down payment. That seems like it'll make things easier. For the most part, I think that loans can be really helpful, but you just gotta be smart when you get one.
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Organizers of the Hemingway District block party are working to arrange food vendors and musical acts for the July event that will take place along Oak Park Avenue.
The block party is planned for the third weekend in July, in recognition of Ernest Hemingway's birthday on July 21. Jim August, owner of The Irish Shop and president of the Hemingway District Business Association, said the village gave its approval for the event in early May, and August said they've been working to finalize plans since then.
The sidewalk sale portion of the event will run from July 16 to July 19.
From 4 to 10 p.m. July 17, and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 18, food vendors and bands will fill Oak Park Avenue, August said.
August said they're trying to get four to six Hemingway District restaurants — like Cucina Paradiso, Eyrie, Maya Del Sol, Winberie's Restaurant & Bar or others — to participate, since there are plenty of food options in the immediate vicinity.
"First and foremost, we're looking within our district," said Megan Greer, restaurant manager at Eyrie and Hemingway District Business Association secretary.
Friday evening and Saturday, Oak Park Avenue will be closed from Lake Street to North Boulevard, August said. A stage will be located near the intersection of Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street, and a beer and wine tent will be set up at the opposite end, near North Boulevard.
August said organizers hope to work with School of Rock Oak Park to provide some entertainment, as well as other Chicago area musicians. He hopes for about three bands Friday night and five bands Saturday.
The Hemingway 8K "Running of the Bulls" will be held the morning of July 18, and the block party will begin after that has ended, Greer said. A kids "Running of the Bulls" event will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Scoville Park.
August added that the block party won't be as kid-focused as past Midnight or May Madness event were.
Because Oak Park is next year's site for an international Hemingway meeting the same weekend that could draw hundreds of people, August and Greer said they expect 2016's block party to be bigger and better.
"We're kind of doing a dry run here," August said.
He added that a couple more incoming restaurants along south Oak Park Avenue, like Hamburger Mary's — still planning to open this July — and Citrine Café, will add to the vibrancy of the district, so the event will extend south next year to encompass that block.
"This will kind of get us ready to at least have the basic planning down to have a bigger event next year," Greer said.
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Unravel the puzzles to reveal clues and crack the mystery…the game is afoot! Mahjong Crimes is now live and available for free on iOS and Android exclusively from Spil Games. Mahjong Crimes delivers your favorite elements from the classic tile game, but with a fascinating twist! Tap into your sleuthing skills as you investigate, search for clues, and solve puzzles while immersed in the world of Agatha Christie's famous Murder on the Orient Express.
The plot thickens In an all-new take on one of the world's most popular games, 250 levels of Mahjong Solitaire unlock clues as you travel through 5 different scenarios within Agatha Christie's iconic mystery. As you climb into your elegant compartment aboard the Orient Express, you'll be faced with 1 of 7 inscrutable varieties of the classic tile-matching game. You may have to beat the clock to reveal a hidden clue. Or the tiles may have letters rather than Chinese characters, and matching those letters spells out an important facet of the case. It is endlessly entertaining and is the only Mahjong game to feature an Agatha Christie murder mystery.
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Some of the most nerve-wracking places to test new features or maintenance on mostly untested systems is anywhere that the logic actually changes something on the system. Testing these places manually is tedious and difficult to isolate. So here's a contrived example of a class that does some simple logic.
This class takes two filenames, reads all text from these files, removes comment lines, sorts the lines, and then finally writes them out to a third file.
A sample of how the above class might be called is here.
Would result in this final file output.txt.
I can't test the filtering/sorting logic as-is, without writing files.
This CombineServiceLogic is used in 5000 locations throughout the project and we don't have dependency injection. No comment.
It's very unlikely that I can change the constructor or the method call without breaking something somewhere. I'm not approved for breaking changes.
I've had feature requests for adding optional parameters to this class's methods for optional functionality additions. I need to make sure the new code works without breaking the old code.
Looking at my concerns, my biggest one is removing that file input/output from this class because writing any output can have some unintended side-effects from automated processes.
Note that output could be anything like email, text messages, user notifications, often things that are completely unacceptable to do by accident.
Also, the input could have unintended side-effects. It might not always be a file input, it could be a message queue for example.
I use two methods from the File class there, so I'm going to put that into an interface.
I can then implement that interface. This implementation is barebones and pretty much just a pass-through.
The CombineServiceLogic class now looks like this. Completely free of System.IO references.
Getting System.IO out of there is a good first step, but this class is still calling the System.IO.File behind the scenes everytime.
Remember that I can't change how this class is called in 5000 places: with an empty default constructor. But I'd like to be able to pass in my own mocked implementation for tests. I can add two constructors instead of just one to do this!
Now I can start to write tests! The 5000 mythical usages of this class should be untouched because they will continue to use the default no-parameter constructor.
What I've used most in the past is xUnit.net and Moq. Substitute your preferred testing libraries as desired.
I've written one happy path test that tests success.
# Define expected parameters and return values.
# Pass file mock into the service logic.
# Ask Moq to verify stuff that happened.
In the real world, you should also write the negative tests and so on. I'll leave that to you.
The point I'm making is that my complex business logic no longer is entirely dependent upon file input/output and that I didn't change the code anywhere else but here. Go ahead and write a few more tests, and then implement new features with confidence!


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Artificial Intelligence is an area of computer science that trains machines to preform tasks that would normally be done by humans. There has been a lot of buzz -- both positive and negative -- around AI over the last few years. In 2016, Microsoft CEO Staya Nadella declared that "bots are the new apps." Last year, Elon Musk warned about the dangers of AI and the rise of the robots. We live in an era with billions of devices that are actively learning us and each other. This is one of the reasons digital transformation has the potential to influence nearly every aspect of our lives.
While there has been an increase in conversations about AI over the past few years, we all have been seeing its effects for quite some time. AI is how Netflix is able to suggest a video that you might enjoy, Amazon is able to recommend a product that you may need next week based on past purchases, and it is also how your email filters spam messages that you do not want to receive in your inbox. AI is already a part of our day-to-day lives, and it will continue to be prevalent for years to come.
Organizations are becoming more aware of the power of AI and are actively searching for ways to bring AI into their respective communities, expand their offerings and improve upon operational capabilities.
Below mentioned are some key AI focus areas and their implications for nonprofit organizations.
Machine Learning And Process Automation
The first focus area is the cognitive automation of machine learning and process automation. Robots can already build cars, move inventory in large warehouses and even perform surgeries. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) did a better job on the operating table than human surgeons who were given the same task.
Handwriting, mapping and image recognition are a few of the examples of how AI can increase operational efficiencies of high volume or workflow based work. Take organizations such as iNaturalist and eBird, which are using AI to identify hundreds of thousands of species that were crowd-sourced by their community of scientists. Without AI, it would take decades to go through each of these images manually.
With AI and deep-learning systems, a computer learns to classify what it sees in coral reef pictures in just a matter of months. Coral researchers are embracing advances in computer science and software, accelerating under-sea mapping of reefs around the world. AI is helping the scientific community advance further and learn more in shorter periods of time.
Engaging With Humans
The second AI focus area involves employing cognitive technology to engage with people. The most common example of this is the voice-enabled device. Siri, Amazonâ??s Alexa and other devices will turn lighting off and on or lower a thermostat based on human commands.
Chatbots, or bots, are becoming great tools for nonprofits and activists to engage with and educate their communities. Two great examples of bots include Hello!Vote, which helps you get the information you need to cast an informed ballot at a local polling place, and Resistbot, which connects constituents with elected officials. Bots are also great tools to help organizations raise funds. Charity: Water was the first nonprofit to collect donations via a bot on Facebook Messenger. However, it has not yet published the results of its fundraising campaign. It will be interesting to see how effective bots are in the future when it comes to fundraising efforts.
Personalized And Actionable Insight
The last focus area is cognitive insights. This refers AI's ability to understand complex data sets and make personal recommendations that would otherwise be hard to identify. AI allows us to not only generate actionable tasks based on what happened, but it also can predict what is likely to happen next.
Organizations have collected a wealth of information about donors and supporters, including their past giving patterns, event attendance and wealth data. Employing technologies with cognitive insight allows fundraisers to better understand data, optimize donor acquisitions, recommend next engagement steps and levels and generate personalized messages to deliver to a large population. Fundraising efforts can be better tracked and predicted using AI.
Gone are the days that each donor receives the same message at the same time via the same communication medium. Combining cognitive insights, along with a cognitive engagement solution, will create even stronger relationships with constituents, while giving organizations an opportunity to increase revenue streams. For example, marketing automation solutions via Salesforce's Journey Builder tool can help create donor journeys with personalized paths to deliver communications based on the actual donor behavior in near-real time. (Full disclosure: Cloud for Good is a Salesforce implementation partner.) Another example is a startup called Gravyty, which uses technology that is able to predict which donors will make the next big gift and customize an email to them based on previous engagements with them.
The benefits of AI far exceed the cost savings created by automation and increased operational efficiencies. AI will help organizations improve the decision-making process by deriving deep and actionable insights. It will also boost engagement with constituents by creating customized and intelligent programs and services and allow an organization to grow on a greater scale, through the automation of tasks that were previously executed manually.
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Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires more time to decide on whether to approve use of Moderna's two-dose COVID-19 vaccine on adolescents 12 to 17 years of age, the pharmaceutical company said.
Moderna said in a statement on Sunday that it was notified Friday by the FDA concerning the need for more time to "evaluate recent international analyses of the risk of myocarditis after vaccination."
An increased risk of myocarditis, the inflammation of the heart, has been associated with COVID-19 vaccines, including that which is made by Moderna, particularly in young men following the second dose.
In Japan, health authorities have allowed men under 30 who have received the Moderna vaccine for their first shot to receive a Pfizer-BioNTech jab for their second due to the risk, The Japan Times reported.
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In northern Europe, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare paused the administration of the jab to boys and men under 30 as have other Scandinavian countries.
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"The safety of vaccine recipients is of paramount importance to Moderna. The company is fully committed to working closely with the FDA to support their review and is grateful to the FDA for their diligence," it said.
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Should You Accept a Counteroffer? Here are 5 Reasons to Say No.
Here you are, caught in a love triangle between two competing employers. One wants to woo you away, while the other is desperate for you to stay. You feel liked, wanted — even loved. But as in all love triangles, someone's going to get hurt. If you accept a counteroffer, it's probably going to be you.
Counteroffers are on the rise. Now that the economy is flourishing again — at least in the digital space — the competition for top talent is intensifying. If you've got a new gig lined up and are preparing to drop your resignation on the boss's desk, be prepared to receive a counteroffer — but think long and hard before you accept it. Better yet, don't accept it at all.
1. There's a reason you were looking elsewhere in the first place.
Does more money fix the problem you had with your current gig? Does a director or VP title change the fact that you're bored and unchallenged, or that your boss is a tool, or that the company culture is toxic? Does it change the fact you had to quit in order to get a raise? Of course not. A few grand more or a snazzier title might make you happy for a second, but it won't last. Stop rationalizing about staying another year and just rip the band-aid off once and for all.
2. Your boss won't forget.
Since you're so necessary, your boss will bend over backward to keep you happy, right?
Your boss will be relieved that you opted to stay, but she won't forget that you were looking to leave in the first place — or that you were willing to abandon her and your team to pursue your own goals. She probably won't be too thrilled that she had to jump through so many hoops to keep you, either. She'll remember all of this, and little by little, she'll make sure you remember it, too.
3. The other hiring manager won't forget, either.
If you accept a counteroffer, the hiring manager who's offer you declined will make a mental tally of the hours he wasted during the hiring process, as well as the amount of time and money lost on whatever project you were going to work on. By accepting the counteroffer, you will completely burn your bridge with him and his company, plus any company he may work for down the line. You're not just closing one door — you're closing several.
4. Your colleagues may lose their trust in you.
Any relationship capital you created in your current role will likely disappear — or at least diminish — when word gets out about your counteroffer (and word always gets out). Like your boss, they'll know you were looking, and they'll assume you aren't committed. They'll also know that getting you to stay meant a raise or a better title or any number of perks. They're going to resent that, and they're going to lose their trust in you as a colleague or manager.
5. Signing a counteroffer means signing your walking papers.
The vast majority of those who accept counteroffers find themselves out of the company in short order. These departures are often voluntary (see all the reasons listed in #1 above), but not always. Remember, as soon as your boss knows you're looking, she's going to start looking, too. She doesn't want to be caught short again, and she'd certainly rather have someone who's actively interested in the job at hand. Either way, accepting a counteroffer is more like a stay of execution than a full pardon from the governor.
Of course there are exceptions to this rule. If you have a great relationship with your current boss, or if your company is so rigidly structured that a competing offer is the only way to get a raise, then it may make sense to explore a counteroffer. But in the vast majority of cases, taking a counteroffer creates the worst kind of love triangle: the kind where everyone ends up heartbroken.


Another Update: As predicted yet again, The Economist has devotedly referenced and linked to Second Life. This time in a August 2008 article (I predicted summer 2008 – bingo!) titled If you build it… (Lively, Google's virtual world, has been a flop). This article about Google's Lively virtual world ends up referencing SL almost as much as the the title topic. If the pattern continues, there will be another article around Christmas 2008.
Magic and wonder is on display from DanCoyote Antonelli and fellow Second Life artists at Kiss The Sky, a "definitive group exhibition of Hyperformalism" at the NMC Arts Lab [SLurl] .
Second Life in the Economist – again!
Another Update: I am a regular Nostradamus! As predicted again, The Economist has once more referenced Second Life. This time in a March 2008 article – OK, so I predicted April, but I was only a couple of issues off – titled Break down these walls (History suggests that open standards will once again trump "walled gardens" on the internet). If the pattern continues, there will be another one in summer 2008.
Update: As predicted in the last sentence of the original post, The Economist has again referenced – and linked to! – Second Life. This time in a December 2007 article titled Getting serious (Virtual worlds are being put to serious real-world uses—and are starting to encounter some real-world problems). If the pattern holds, there will be another one in April 2008. Stay tuned.
Fiend Ludwig and Typist are separated by the boundary of anonymity.
Anonymity shields Typist from prying eyes and leaves him free to traverse his Real without concern of recognition or retribution. It deflects criticism and accountability. Fiend can say anything, however vile, and Typist can expect protection.
Anonymity is Typist's Charon. It carries his soul across the Stygian divide between the Real and the Virtual. However, Typist is much concerned for the reputation of his representative there. For across the ford flows revelation. Typist takes great pains to be accountable; to say nothing too vile. Anonymity empowers Typist to transport himself – so himself it should be.
What I saw recently from interactive media application developer i3D (formerly Metaverse Tech) confirms my opinion that these guys should have won the Electric Sheep Company/Edelman SL Business Plan contest, as they continue to develop sophisticated tools for use in SL that stretch the bounds of creativity and functionality, while remaining inherently intuitive and useful.
The latest wonder is the vHUD. Although they wrote about it a couple of weeks ago on their company blog, it is to be officially introduced at noon (Second Life time) today, in the Metaversed sim, where they will hand out vHUD prototypes for anyone to try, and announce a working relationship with SLCN, including three new SLCN channels for the vHUD.
This is perhaps the most intriguing and sophisticated HUD I have ever used. Based around their equally innovative Silver Stream System (SSS) technology, the vHUD can stream individually customizable RSS feeds (I am following the RSS feed from Metaversed on my demo vHUD in the image above), HTML, videos (here is a very short video of the vHUD streaming a machinima promo video), and searchable Flickr images to an avatar's UI. It can also display a list of SSS enabled regions SL, which includes clickable teleport links. "Basically, something for everyone to get their SL info with while they are inworld," says i3D's Anthony Reisman.
i3D will distribute the vHUD free of charge, with plans to support continued development the product with unobtrusive, targeted ads. "Most people don't mind ads, as long as they have relevance to what they are doing," says Reisman, "so we are going to do our best to implement a relevancy system. When viewing content or an ad, the user [will be able] to put feedback into the system about the ad's relevance to the location they were and the content they were viewing. We don't need to store data about the person providing the feedback, just whether the ad is good or bad, relevant or not, and over time, collect enough data so that the ads are relevant to what people are doing and watching." i3D will also announce today that they have a working relationship with SL Exchange to explore the potential for implementing these ads.
Camille Utterback speaks. In SL and rl.
April 18, 2007. 5:33 PM SLT. Search/Events/Arts and Culture.
Come buy some of my Art, so I can afford to apply for art school!
I need to make $600us for my application fee. But I am very poor and mentally ill in RL.
Kill, kill, kill in the name of looooove.
Upon visiting his/her gallery, some interesting art nonetheless.
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Over the next few days I will be posting some of my favourite pieces that have already been published elsewhere over the past year. Watch this space for a Fiend retrospective.


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California Dancing
Greater Los Angeles
On the RIZE: Dancing Clowns, Krumping, and the Future of Hip-Hop
by Rachel Levin
Since hip-hop first blasted its way onto the street corners and dance floors of America thirty years ago, it has been difficult to imagine what dance style could possibly come along next to top it. What dance could be more spectacular than the gravity-defying head spins and body illusions of breakdancers? What dance could possibly be more sexually provocative than the booty-shaking antics of hip-hop video honeys? What dance could be more aggressive than breaking crews battling on the streets of the South Bronx?
Director David LaChapelle has glimpsed the future and delivers the answers in his new film RIZE. Believe it or not, the source for the next revolution in dance spectacle, sensuality, and cathartic aggression wears a rainbow afro and balloon face paint.
Tommy the Hip-Hop Clown (aka Thomas Johnson) is credited with starting clowning - an offshoot of hip-hop dance that could easily have been dismissed as a childlike novelty. In the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King riots, Tommy, a reformed drug dealer, decided to put on a clown suit, crank up the hip-hop, and bring some joy to his neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles, which had been ravaged by fires, looting, and violence. What began as entertainment for children's birthday parties soon grew into an academy where neighborhood youth could learn how to dance freestyle while donning clown make-up rather than gang colors.
You'd think that dressing up like a clown and dancing would get most high school kids ridiculed by their peers, if not beat up by the cool kids. But clowning took on such cache in the neighborhood that it acquired privileged status. Tommy started Battle Zone, a competition where different clown groups could battle one another for the top clowning distinction. The groups multiplied and allowed for the development of unique styles and family-like connections among the members. If you were part of a clown crew, the gangs would leave you alone.
Yet just as there is always a slippage in our culture between clown as merrymaker and clown as sinister trickster (think Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Stephen King's IT), clown dancing inevitably evolved from its painted-on-smile origins to a dance style that reflected the passion and pain of its young performers. Clown make-up gave way to a kind of facial graffiti, a re-mix of African and Native American face paint traditionally used in battle. Party-time freestyle transformed into frenzied chest pumping and wild propeller arms. Clown suits gave way to bare-chested boys and torso-bearing girls.
Krumping was born.
Krumping is like clowning on speed. One mother featured in the film said of her son, "I thought he was on drugs when I first saw him krump." The disclaimer at the beginning of RIZE informs us, "The footage in this film has not been sped up in any way." The kids really are dancing this fast. It is completely freestyle - there is no choreography - and the style changes daily. As one krumper explains, "If you miss two days [of krump sessions], you're slacking," and other dancers can tell. But certain movement themes persist. Krumping mashes together elements as disparate as stripper dancing and African battle rituals. It reenacts movements of being overtaken by religious rapture and police brutality. An early scene in the film shows three girls mimicking police restraining and beating a "suspect" on the trunk of a car and then breaking into dance. Watching a krump session is like watching a controlled riot.
These kids are dealing with a palpable sense of life's fragility, growing up in a place where many youth end up either dead or in prison. There is an uncanny irony in the fact that Tommy's academy is located in a strip mall next door to Payless Caskets, whose owner admonishes the kids to "Clown right or you'll end up here with me." The film goes to great lengths to tell the personal stories of the featured dancers, especially Lil C and Tight Eyez who are credited with creating krump, and their dance partners Miss Prissy, Dragon, Baby Tight Eyez, and Larry. The dancers explain that krumping is their one reliable outlet for escape. They can hide behind the masks of their face paint and release their pain and frustration. Krump is a kinesthetic expression of laughter on the verge of tears.
Dance is also one of the few avenues for, if you will, rising up from their circumstances. There is no money for expensive extra-curricular activities, and college scholarships come mostly for athletes. If you want to be an artist, the kids explain, all you've got is your body and your music. Krump is reminiscent of the ingenuity of early hip-hop: creating something from nothing.
But the kids vow that unlike hip-hop performers, who've rehashed the tropes of thugs and 'hos innumerable times for a mass audience, they won't be come "commercial clones." This is a sticky proposition, for how can krumping avoid being commodified from the minute an outsider's camera captures it? The final scene of the film offers up Dragon, Tight Eyez, Lil C, and Miss Prissy krumping in the concrete L.A. river bed with exposed, chiseled abs, gleaming oiled skin, and costumes that look art-directed. It is a glorified music video, which is not surprising given LaChapelle's resume as music video director for the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani. They may not become clones, but in an instant they've made krumping commercial.
Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if the cool kids in the suburbs started painting their faces.
Krumping, from the movie Rize
Photo courtesy of Lions Gate
Go to www.RizeMovie.com and you can send in your own Krump & Clown Dance Videos & be a part of the Battlezone! 10 lucky finalists will have their videos included in the Battlezone at www.rizemovie.com.


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The Los Angeles Police Department offers information on accidents. To learn more about how to request a collision report or other public records from the LAPD, go to this link. The California Department of Motor Vehicles provides information on traffic and safety laws.
When someone is injured in a Los Angeles bicycle accident, what needs to happen next?
When a bicycle accident, caused by the negligence of a motorist, results in serious injury or death, the next step is to find an experienced Los Angeles bicycle accident attorney to start the financial recovery process by launching an insurance claim. Major injury or wrongful death claims are complicated and can be hard to manage without legal help. Having a personal injury lawyer on board is a great relief to injured bicyclists, or to the family left behind when an accident proves fatal.
Since personal injury lawyers offer a free initial consultation and work on a contingency basis, meaning that there are no up-front costs and all fees are paid when the claim is settled, there is no downside to speaking with a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer right away, to get help for an injured bicyclist.


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Sunruined: Horror Stories
By: Andersen Prunty
Narrated by: Andersen Prunty
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Pray You Die Alone: Horror Stories
A short story collection from Andersen Prunty, author of F--kness and Hi I'm a Social Disease . Contains "The Summer of Flies", "Deathtripping in New Orleans", "Durning", "Air Cathedral", "The Nowhere Room", "Black Rosita's Man", and "Rayles".
Interesting Mix of Stories
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Hi I'm a Social Disease: Horror Stories
Narrated by: Eric Aschenbrenner
This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features "Room 19", a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song "From Her to Eternity," appearing for the first time anywhere, and "Market Adjustment", about one man's battle with the wealthy, previously available only in a very limited edition. Also includes: "The Dust Season", "The Man With the Face Like a Bruise," "The Photographer," "The Night the Moon Made a Sound," and "The Funeralgoer."
Each story is good
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Jack and Mr. Grin
Jack Orange is a twenty-something guy who works at a place called The Tent packing dirt in boxes and shipping them off to exotic, unheard of locales. He thinks about his girlfriend, Gina Black, and the ring he hopes to surprise her with. But when he returns home one day, Gina isn't there. He receives a strange call from a man who sounds like he is smiling- Mr. Grin. He says he has Gina. He gives Jack twenty-four hours to find her.
By timj26 on 11-07-19
Creep House
Narrated by: Nita Who
Zombies. Werewolves. Vampires. Mummies. Satanic cults. Unspeakable cosmic horror. Andersen Prunty welcomes you to Twin Springs, Ohio, in his latest collection of horror stories.
Excellent stories!
Satanic Summer
Doug Backus is a normal young man trying to lead a clean Christian life. But when mysterious and gruesome deaths begin occurring in his town of Clover, Kentucky, he learns that his life can never be as wholesome as he wants. Along with his heathen friend Crank and pariah neighbor Whitney, he becomes involved in an exploration of the town's secrets that will either lead them to their doom or answer all the questions Doug has about almost everything.
Take the Cash and the Car and Leave
Sociopaths in Love
Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They move in together and start a new life. They're beautiful and they have new things, expensive things, the best of everything, whatever they want. But that's only the surface. Beneath the surface is something much different. Something much darker. Theirs is a love like no other and only one of them will survive it.
There is a lot of poop!
By Barks Books on 01-19-20
Bury the Children in the Yard
Andersen Prunty ( F--kness and Hi I'm a Social Disease) returns with another collection of horror stories. This volume features: "The Library of Trespass", "Music from the Slaughterhouse", "A Butterfly in Ice", "The Spot", "Laundrymen", "The Warm House", and the novella "Bury the Children in the Yard."
EVERYTHING BREATHES IF YOU STARE AT IT LONG ENOUGH
By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-12-14
The Sorrow King
The papers call it "The Suicide Virus." The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate. Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to life with his father. Along the way, he meets a girl who becomes another kind of obsession: Elise Devon.
The Beard
Seven-year-old David Glum watches as his grandfather is abducted by a legendary herd of elephants. Twenty years later, David returns to his parents' home to focus on growing a beard, a goal he feels sure he can accomplish. Once the beard reaches a respectable girth, uncontrollable things begin happening around him. His mother dies. Maybe. His father might really be a man named Gary Wrench. David is sure of one thing: His family is cursed.
Pass the beard oil
The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians
My name is Andersen Prunty. I'm happiest while napping. I am a man with tennis shoes. They get older every time I put them on. This is how I deal with the pain of being alive. Now is our chance to deal with our pain together. You'll thank me later.
How did I live without this vital information?
By Saya on 12-10-13
Morning Is Dead
Things went wrong for Alvin and April Blue. In a hospital at night, April sits next to Alvin, bandages covering his burned skin, listening to his heartbeat on a monitor, and wonders how they ended up here. But she can never imagine the world of insanity, drugs, and crime that Alvin has fallen into. A place where fetuses are used to create simulacra, radiation victims prowl the streets looking for sacrifice, houses are arbitrarily detonated, and the police force is more like a marauding gang of thugs. A place where it's always dark and morning is dead....
Neon Dies at Dawn
Narrated by: E. B. Addams
A retired man loses his wife to cancer and his daughter to a mysterious accident. He mostly lives alone, occasionally taking care of his grandson. When he sees a black van drive over a young woman before disappearing into the dark of night, he loses what little faith he has in humanity and discovers a sense of vengeful purpose.
Kill Your Neighbor
When Emma and Kip Dupree bought their first home together, they got a lot more than they bargained for. They wanted to get out of the city and get on with their lives on the quiet cul-de-sac. Instead, an object of obsession brings their lives to a screeching halt. Who is the woman living next door? Why does she do the curious things she does? Why do Emma and Kip feel like their lives have been so disrupted? How do they get her to stop? The Duprees are only sure about one thing: the social contract must be upheld at all costs.
We Don't Talk About Her
Narrated by: Brett Schumacher
Clint is a laughable stalker who lives in a hoard with his decaying mother. Stella is his current fascination, but Clint has no idea what kind of woman Stella is. She's playing a lifelong game and only she knows the rules. Now she's made a wrong move and finds herself at Clint's house, victim to his perverse attentions and bizarre behavior. Is it the perfect place to hide from her past or an insane prison from which she may never escape?
Most Romantic Prunty Title Yet
By King Mab on 09-18-18
Squirm with Me
Mason Becker is a self-published writer suffering from mild success. After the death of his girlfriend, he quits his job, moves into a tiny apartment in a small town in Ohio, and spends the next several months convincing himself to leave for anything other than food, beer, or cigarettes. He doesn't even really consider himself a writer. He's a guy who cashed in his 401(k) and is quietly biding his time until he has to find another job. On the night he finally forces himself out to a local bar, he comes back to the apartment to find his twin brother, Doug....
I'll Stop the World and Squirm With You
By Brian M on 05-18-16
Irrationalia
Narrated by: Joseph M. Clarke
When three friends receive a startlingly incoherent invitation to a "Reeyoonyun", they seize upon it to break up the monotony of their middle-aged lives. The host, one of their old friends, seems battered and out of it. The maid acts like a weird robot. The host confesses the house might not actually be his. Over the course of a tense, bizarre evening, the friends soon realize the invitation was to something much more sinister than a reunion: the past. Twenty-five years ago, in 1993, the group experienced something on a summer night in the woods.
Funny moments kinda gross
Zerostrata
After 10 years, Hansel Nothing returns to his boyhood home, unable to remember anything that has happened to him since he left. Back home, he stays in Zerostrata, a treehouse in the backyard. The Nothing family is as dysfunctional and depressed as ever. His mother keeps a cat on her head and incessantly munches prescription medication. His father has left the house to pursue a career as a superhero. His brother wants to be the dad's superhero sidekick and thinks he can fly. Hansel's life is changed forever when he meets Gretel, a free-spirited woman who runs naked through the woods every night....
The Nothing family is quite the interesting group
Failure as a Way of Life
Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
Ryan Noman is stuck in a house on a dead end street in a dying city, a loveless relationship, and a job where the owner challenges his employees to fights in the parking lot. He also has a mystery rash. When Ryan's best friend, Gus, convinces him they need to contaminate the source of the artisanal bottled water facility where they work, Ryan goes along with it because, hey, what else is he going to do? This proves to be another bad choice in an increasingly lengthening list of bad choices in Ryan's life. It changes everything, leaving both Ryan and Gus transformed.
A wonderful book
By Geoff on 03-17-20
Seven bleak stories from Andersen Prunty.
The Jackthief
The Screaming Orchard
Glowers Point
Cruel Women with Whiplike Smiles
The Smoke of Samuel
Sad Clown, Kentucky
Sunruined
©2012 Andersen Prunty (P)2014 Andersen Prunty
Slag Attack
F***ness
What listeners say about Sunruined: Horror Stories
Spooky Mike
Good Collection of Bizarre Stories
Out of all the collections of short stories by Anderson Prunty, this was my favorite. These stories are definitely bizarre, but quite enjoyable. They all had a little something different about the story that I really liked. Not a big fan of Prunty's narration. He has a very monotone voice which just pushes through the story without providing much energy or excitement. Would be more fitting for text books. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.
Blackeagle
Monotone narrator
I loved the stories and characters but the narrator was just not the right person for the job. I received this book at my request and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review here.
William Cady
Grotesque Horror
I received a review copy of this audiobook. It's been a few years since I've read or listened to horror, and it's possible that I've just lost my taste for the genre, but my impression is that this collection of stories isn't so much horrific as it is grotesque. I didn't feel a mounting sense of dread and it didn't hit me where I live: it just was an unpleasant series of experiences to ponder. In the audiobook in particular, the author reads the story with an extremely flat affect that there is no sense of tension.
timj26
Another great example of how diverse Andersen prunty can be Less extreme then some of his work these are more psychological horror Well narrated by the man himself highly recommended I received a free review audiobook and voluntarily left this review
Jason S.
I don't turn off books, but I just could not get passed the narration. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a tense moment, sad, I mean no context clues verbally.


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Lewisburg headed to first District 4 AA final
Lewisburg headed to first District 4 AA final.
By: Mitch Rupert | Williamsport Sun-Gazette | November 21, 2009
TOWANDA - Todd Tilford never envisioned this chapter of Lewisburg's football season.
He didn't see it coming as an assistant coach for the Green Dragons during one of the worst stretches of football in the school's history, and he didn't even see it in August despite coming off a season in which Lewisburg won the school's first-ever district playoff game.
So knowing that his Green Dragons are not only going to play in the District 4 Class AA title game, but they're going to host it after a 19-14 victory over previously unbeaten Towanda on Friday night, is beyond Tilford's wildest dreams.
But that's exactly what is going to happen next week. Lewisburg, a program that is just two years removed from a six-year stretch of football in which it went just 10-60 is going to play a 13th game for the first time in school history. It's the Green Dragons' first appearance in a District 4 championship game. And they'll face Loyalsock, a 17-6 winner over Hughesville last night in the other semifinal.
"We thought we could go far, so this is just about what we thought we could do," Lewisburg linebacker Brandon Smith said. "But this is the first time we've ever done this, so it's pretty awesome."
"As an assistant, to even be playing for a district championship probably wasn't a realistic goal at this point," Tilford said. "We'd be lying if we said we expected to be playing for a district title with the kids we had coming back at the beginning of the year. But that's just a credit to how hard they've worked to get here."
Lewisburg did it by holding Towanda (11-1) to its lowest point total of the season, and keeping the Black Knights under 30 points for just the third time this season. The Green Dragons did it by holding 1,500 yard back Travis Chesla, a legitimate all-state candidate, to just 70 yards on 23 carries.
And they did it by coming up with timely stop after timely stop, which included Smith sacking Towanda quarterback Dakota Roof on a fourth-and-nine play from the Lewisburg 35-yard line with just 1:25 to play in the game.
"The whole plan was to stop (Chesla)," said Smith, who had one of the Green Dragons' two sacks of Roof. "The linemen made it easy for the linebackers. They stopped the front surge and then the linebackers could just go get him."
Although Towanda ran for 199 yards, most of that came between the 20s, and most of it came from Roof (105 yards, 2 touchdowns). But it was that sack, in which Roof rolled to his right looking for receiver Cody Miller on a pass pattern he had been open on three or four times earlier in the night, that was the defining play for the Lewisburg defense.
"Cody Miller was open, even on that play," Towanda coach Craig Dawsey said. "Dakota just got sacked before he could throw the ball. We tried to hit Miller on that three or four times during the night. This time we just got sacked."
Defender in his face or not, Roof had trouble getting the passing game going for the Black Knights on a night they sorely needed it to help open up some space for Chesla and the running game. Roof was just 4-of-17 passing, and didn't complete his first pass until there was 8:40 left in the third quarter.
His first possession interception by Lewisburg's John Moscarello led to the Green Dragons' first touchdown. Just two plays following the pick, Quarterback Cam Cassells found receiver Ryan Lopes on an out route. And after Towanda's Miller tried to go for the ball, Lopes slipped a tackle and tip-toed down the sideline for a 17 yard touchdown connection.
"Ryan and Cam are starting to click a little bit," Tilford said. "Ryan's got great hands, and he made two impressive runs after the catch tonight."
That's right, the pair hooked up again in the second quarter with the score tied at 7-7. Cassells hit Lopes on a slant and Lopes pulled up after making the catch before the Towanda safety could lay a big hit on him. Lopes slipped one tackle and was off to the races on a 29 yard touchdown strike.
And even though Lewisburg missed the extra point for a 13-7 lead, it had set the tone for the game. The defense carried that tone in the second half by stalling a Towanda drive at the Lewisburg 12-yard line, only to see Roof then miss a 29 yard field goal attempt with just one second left in the first half.
"I think that stop at the end of the first half was huge, and the defense just came up huge there," Tilford said. "The kids were all fired up in the locker room and you could see they had the confidence."
They gained just a little more confidence when a bad punt snap for Towanda on the first possession of the second half gave the Green Dragons the ball at the Black Knights 14-yard line and led to a Merle Moscarello five yard touchdown run and a 19-7 lead.
"Those little details are the things that can hurt you," Dawsey said of the bad punt snap and missed field goal. "And we practice those things all the time. It's just one of those nights where things didn't happen the way we wanted it to. It's a great football game. We just didn't win."
"Nobody has two kids in the backfield as good as (Chesla and Roof)," Tilford said. "We put it on our defense all year, and they came up big again tonight."
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An older woman with dementia has home health care. At 5 a.m., her caregiver notices the woman trying to get out of bed and moving her hands. She thinks the woman is agitated and calls the doctor, who prescribes something to calm the patient. It doesn't occur to either that this woman, a devout Muslim, is just trying to pray. It's something she has done five times a day all her life.
An elderly patient who received a prosthesis after a leg amputation reported vague pain and discomfort on follow-up doctor visits. A home health physical therapist could not determine a specific cause. During an evaluation, the doctor did not see any reason for an improper fit. Finally, the patient said she believed that because God allowed her leg to be amputated, she didn't believe it was right to replace it.
As the elderly population becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, officials say the health care industry lacks proper resources to address the growing cultural, religious and language divide.
The U.S. elderly immigrant population rose from 2.7 million in 1990 to 4.6 million in 2010, a 70 percent increase in 20 years. And it's still on the rise.
It is estimated that the number of U.S. immigrants 65 and older will quadruple to more than 16 million by 2050. In 2014, about 15 percent of people age 65 and older live in a home where a language other than English was spoken. In 2010, more than 1 in 8 adults 65 and older were foreign born, a number that is also expected to continue to grow.
When they need health care, particularly home health care, it becomes a challenge.
Just 20 percent of Hispanics age 40 and older are "extremely or very confident" that home health aides can take their cultural needs into account, according to a recent study from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, a Chicago-based research and journalism partnership.
The study showed that 16 percent of older Hispanic adults are confident that nursing homes can meet their cultural needs, and 18 percent feel the same about assisted living communities. Of those who experienced a cultural or language barrier in the health care system, 67 percent said it resulted in stress or delays in getting care, and 51 percent said it took more time and effort to overcome those barriers.
John T. Brinkmann, assistant professor and research prosthetist at Northwestern University in Chicago, said providing care in a patient's home can give a practitioner important insight into an individual's value system and culture and gives a more realistic picture of the individual's life and routines.
But, "it can also challenge the power dynamics of a traditional medical encounter, since we're now on their 'turf,'" Brinkmann said. "Rather than directing patients to a particular room or chair, we need to show deference to their preferences regarding where we perform our duties.
Support from large organizations at the national level is vital to get the word out. "We need to talk about it," Ayati said.
Brinkmann said NCOPE, the accreditation body for prosthetics/orthotics education programs, requires that students receive instruction on cultural aspects of health care.
One way to educate about cultural differences is to recruit and support prospective students from diverse backgrounds. "When we modify our education strategies in consideration of students with different cultural backgrounds, we're modeling how these differences can be handled appropriately," Brinkmann said.
Brinkmann also believes we underestimate the cultural divide between individuals at different socioeconomic levels. "We've gotten used to particular ways of dealing with payment issues, for instance, and as our health care system changes we will experience different challenges related to those types of disparities," he said.
Tammy Leytham is a freelance writer for HomeCare.


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Route 80 West to Exit 57 B-A. Stay to the right of the exit and follow the signs to Downtown Paterson. At the second traffic light turn left onto Cianci St., then turn left at the next traffic light onto Market St. The Museum is last building on left side of the street. Turn left into parking lot with locomotives out front.
the signs to Grand St. At the traffic light, turn left off onto Grand St. At the next traffic light turn right onto Spruce St. At next traffic light turn right onto Market St., and turn into first parking lot on the right.
Garden State Parkway South to Exit 160. Follow to Route 80 West.
Follow same directions from the East.
Then follow same directions as from the West.